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Joachim Denner is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and focuses their research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work intersects several subfields including Surgery, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

Denner's research extensively covers topics such as xenotransplantation and immune response, virus-based gene therapy, animal genetics and reproduction, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, animal virus infection studies, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, and cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

Their recent publications demonstrate ongoing contributions to these areas and include:

  • Impact of porcine cytomegalovirus on long-term orthotopic cardiac xenotransplant survival (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Pig-to-non-human primate heart transplantation: The final step toward clinical xenotransplantation? (2020, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation)
  • Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses and Xenotransplantation (2021, Viruses)
  • How, where and when to screen for porcine cytomegalovirus (PCMV) in donor pigs for xenotransplantation (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Virus Safety of Xenotransplantation (2022, Viruses)

Frequent collaborators include Beneditk B. Kaufer, Ludwig Krabben, Bruno Reichart, Hina Jhelum, and Matthias Längin.

Denner's work appears most often in specialized journals and platforms such as Xenotransplantation, Viruses, Preprints.org, Microorganisms, and Research Square.

Best Publications

  • Expression of human endogenous retrovirus K in melanomas and melanoma cell lines.

    Kristina Büscher;Uwe Trefzer;Maja Hofmann;Wolfram Sterry

  • Microbiological safety of the first clinical pig islet xenotransplantation trial in New Zealand.

    Shaun Wynyard;Divya Nathu;Olga Garkavenko;Joachim Denner

  • Infection Barriers to Successful Xenotransplantation Focusing on Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses

    Joachim Denner;Ralf R. Tönjes

  • Clinical extracorporeal hybrid liver support – phase I study with primary porcine liver cells

    I. M. Sauer;D. Kardassis;K. Zeillinger;A. Pascher

  • Lack of evidence for xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus(XMRV) in German prostate cancer patients

    Oliver Hohn;Hans Krause;Pia Barbarotto;Lars Niederstadt

  • Knockdown of porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) expression by PERV-specific shRNA in transgenic pigs.

    Britta Dieckhoff;Björn Petersen;Wilfried A. Kues;Reinhard Kurth

  • Productive infection of human primary cells and cell lines with porcine endogenous retroviruses.

    V. Specke;S. Rubant;J. Denner

  • Transspecies transmission of the endogenous koala retrovirus.

    Uwe Fiebig;Manuel Garcia Hartmann;Norbert Bannert;Reinhard Kurth

  • Neutralizing antibodies against conserved domains of p15E of porcine endogenous retroviruses: basis for a vaccine for xenotransplantation?

    Uwe Fiebig;Oliver Stephan;Reinhard Kurth;Joachim Denner

  • Efficient production of multi-modified pigs for xenotransplantation by ‘combineering’, gene stacking and gene editing

    Konrad Fischer;Simone Kraner-Scheiber;Björn Petersen;Beate Rieblinger

  • First update of the International Xenotransplantation Association consensus statement on conditions for undertaking clinical trials of porcine islet products in type 1 diabetes-Executive summary

    Bernhard J. Hering;Emanuele Cozzi;Thomas Spizzo;Peter J. Cowan

  • Expression of the human endogenous retrovirus-K transmembrane envelope, Rec and Np9 proteins in melanomas and melanoma cell lines.

    Kristina Büscher;Silvia Hahn;Maja Hofmann;Uwe Trefzer

  • No PERV transmission during a clinical trial of pig islet cell transplantation

    Vladimir A. Morozov;Shaun Wynyard;Shinichi Matsumoto;Adrian Abalovich

  • Genetic alterations of the long terminal repeat of an ecotropic porcine endogenous retrovirus during passage in human cells

    Joachim Denner;Volker Specke;Ulla Thiesen;Alexander Karlas

  • Recombinant porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV‐A/C): a new risk for xenotransplantation?

    Joachim Denner

  • Porcine endogenous retroviruses inhibit human immune cell function: risk for xenotransplantation?

    Stefan J. Tacke;Reinhard Kurth;Joachim Denner

  • HERV-K : The biologically most active human endogenous retrovirus family

    Ralf R. Tönjes;Roswitha Löwer;Klaus Boller;Joachim Denner

  • Expression and function of endogenous retroviruses in the placenta

    Joachim Denner

  • Porcine endogenous retroviruses: in vitro host range and attempts to establish small animal models.

    Volker Specke;Volker Specke;Stefan J. Tacke;Klaus Boller;Jochen Schwendemann

  • The immunosuppressive peptide of HIV-1 : functional domains and immune response in AIDS patients

    Joachim Denner;Stephen Norley;Reinhard Kurth

  • RAPID COMMUNICATION Productive Infection of Human Primary Cells and Cell Lines with Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses

    V. Specke;S. Rubant;J. Denner

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhard Kurth
Reinhard Kurth Robert Koch Institute
Bruno Reichart
Bruno Reichart Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Eckhard Wolf
Eckhard Wolf Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Heiner Niemann
Heiner Niemann Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Peter J. Cowan
Peter J. Cowan University of Melbourne
Alexander Pfeifer
Alexander Pfeifer University of Bonn
Johannes Löwer
Johannes Löwer Paul Ehrlich Institut
Ulrich Martin
Ulrich Martin Hannover Medical School
Jay A. Fishman
Jay A. Fishman Harvard University

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